Building Design

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Building Design covers the design system behind every Woodfine building: a fixed leasing geometry, an open-standards BIM practice, and the site-and-building disciplines that turn that geometry into a buildable, sustainable property.
Building Design covers the design system behind every Woodfine building: fixed floor plates and measurement standards, an open-standards BIM practice, and the site-and-building standards that turn those elements into a buildable, sustainable property.

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- [[property-manager-bim-gap]] — A substantial share of facilities managers do not actively use the BIM models delivered at project handover, due to software cost, training requirements, and file format opacity — a gap Woodfine's building records are designed to close.
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## The Leasing Geometry
## Floor Plates and Measurement Standards

[[fixed-floor-plates|Fixed Floor Plates]] and [[key-plans-and-tiles|Key Plans and Tiles]] set out the standardized structural base and the self-similar space-planning system every Woodfine building is derived from. [[boma-standard|The BOMA Standard]] is the shared measurement basis for every lease area and building comparison. [[asset-architecture-standard|The Asset Architecture Standard]] fixes the uniform structural requirements — concrete and steel construction, pre-acquisition dimensioning — applied across the portfolio.

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- [[fixed-floor-plates]] — The standardized, immutable structural base used in all Woodfine buildings, derived from optimized equipment geometry to enable repeatable construction and predictable space performance.
- [[key-plans-and-tiles]] — A geometric, self-similar space planning system derived from tenant equipment and circulation geometry, used to derive fixed floor plate dimensions.
- [[boma-standard]] — The Building Owners and Managers Association measurement standard for commercial floor area, used as the common measurement basis for Woodfine lease areas and building comparisons.
- [[asset-architecture-standard]] — Uniform structural requirements for Woodfine developments: concrete and steel construction, pre-acquisition dimensioning, and standardized configuration applied across the portfolio.
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## Site and Building Disciplines
## Site and Building Standards

[[design-sequence-priority|Design Sequence Priority]] fixes the collaboration order behind every design package: Leasing Plan first, then Building Services, then Structural. [[four-to-one-parking-ratio|The 4:1 Parking Ratio]] and [[water-management-system|the Water Management System]] apply at the site level. [[common-building-code|The Common Building Code]], [[tile-level-climate-zoning|tile-level climate zoning]], and [[structural-bay-depth-discipline|structural bay depth discipline]] apply at the building and leasehold level. [[geometry-of-sustainability|Geometry of Sustainability]] and [[dual-mandate-building-certifications|Dual-Mandate Building Certifications]] cover the operating-cost engineering and the BREEAM/WELL certification strategy that follow.

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- [[design-sequence-priority]] — The fixed collaboration order behind every Woodfine design package — the Leasing Plan first, then Building Services, then Structural — each discipline designing against a completed prior layer instead of in parallel.
- [[four-to-one-parking-ratio]] — The four-stalls-per-1,000-square-foot parking standard Woodfine applies in Regional Markets, where the private automobile is the only practical way a tenant's customers reach the building.
- [[water-management-system]] — A day-to-day water-conservation mechanism — cistern and irrigation-gallery storage, a greywater plumbing system, permeable paving, and bioswales — that makes Development Site landscaping self-sufficient rather than dependent on municipal stormwater infrastructure.